William Carey University will hold commencement ceremonies on Friday, August 7 and Saturday, August 8 in Smith Auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus.

The Friday ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. for doctoral candidates from the School of Education and the Fail School of Nursing as well as Specialist in Education candidates from both the Hattiesburg and Tradition campuses. The speaker will be Dr. Chuck Benigno, superintendent of the Laurel School District.

An essay by Dr. Lorie Watkins, an associate professor of language and literature at William Carey University, has been published in “Faulkner’s Geographies,” a book exploring fictional locations created by Mississippi author and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner.

A professor and students from the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine have received international recognition for a four-part series of articles focusing on the use of social network Twitter as a communications tool in crisis situations.

William Carey University is one of three universities in Mississippi working with the CEEDAR Mississippi Partnership, an effort to improve overall educational services to students with disabilities throughout the state.

The William Carey University Office of Admissions will host Early Registration Day for the fall term at both the Hattiesburg campus and the Tradition campus in Biloxi from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Friday, July 17.

Early Registration Day offers new students the opportunity to meet with admissions personnel and faculty advisors, visit key offices, register for classes and tour the university. The fall term begins on August 24 and runs through October 28.

The William Carey University Center for Creative Scholars will host the Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead! Creativity Exploration Camp for students in grades two through eight at the Hattiesburg campus from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. on July 21-23.

During the camp, students will explore their creative potential through activities in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. The camp will engage participants through critical thinking and problem-solving with a creative arts emphasis.

The 40th anniversary season of Carey Dinner Theatre continues with “Beehive,” a musical tribute to popular female singers of the 1960s, from July 7-18 in the Joe and Virginia Tatum Theatre on the Hattiesburg campus of William Carey University.

William Carey University recently received a gift of $100,000 from Dr. Lynn McMahan, founder of Southern Eye Center in Hattiesburg, and his wife, Marty, to support the university's new Doctor of Physical Therapy program.

"We thank the McMahans for their generous gift that further enhances Hattiesburg as a medical center in the state," said Dr. Tommy King, Carey president.